Skirt-weight.



S. PAULL.

SKIRT WEIGHT. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. 1912.

1,037,518, Patented Sept. 3,1912

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON, D. C:-

WITNE88E8 UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE,

SAMUEL PAULL, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKIRT-'WEIGH'E.

Application filed March 11,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL PAULL, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirtl Veights, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

- This invention relates to garment weights of the class employed by dress makers for holding the bottom of a skirt or the bottom of a coat or similar garment in position, and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class particularly designed for use in connection with facing composed of thin material with which the weights are connected; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device or devices of the class specified and constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the accompanying drawing forms a part and in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 a view showing the bottom portion of a skirt provided with weights constructed and connected therewith as hereinafter described; Fig. 2 a view of a part of a. skirt-facing with which my improved skirt weights are connected; Fig. 3 a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing a step of the process for connecting the weights with the facing, and Fig. 5 a perspective view of one of my improved weights.

ln the drawing forming part of this specification l have shown at a the bottom part of a skirt or other garment with the bottom edge of which my improved weights are connected as indicated at I), in Figs. 2, 3 and a and I have shown at o a facing strip of thin material, and cut on the bias with which my weights 7) are connected, three of said weights being shown in Fig. 2.

I n Fig. 5 of the accompanying drawin I have shown one of my improved weights Z) detached, and these weights according to my invention are composed of lead or other soft metal, or a composition of metals, and said weights are made oblong in form and the end portions thereof are beveled on the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented se t. 3, 1912.

1912. Serial No. 682,954.

. ater side as shown at Z2 ,.and said weights are also provided longitudinalof the outer side and centrally thereof with a groove 6 In securing the weights 5 to the strip 0, said weights are placed parallel with the bottom edge of said strip as shown in Fig. 2 and are stitched thereto as shown at d by a suitable machine and in the usual manner, and in this operation the stitching or the needle by which the stitching is made is passed through the grooves 6 and that part of the weights through which the needle and the stitching pass is very thin, the thickness thereof being only sufficient to serve as means for attaching the weights and to hold them in position.

I am aware that garment weights of this class have heretofore been made of the same general form as mine, but these weights had no beveled ends and this interfered wit-h the operation of sewing or stitching them to the strip, as the said straight or abrupt ends would cause a jumping movement of the machine, or of the presser foot, and this would result in buckling or gathering the strip, but with my in'iprovement this umping move ment of the machine, or presser foot, is avoided and said foot passes smoothly over the weights.

My improvement is particularly designed for use in connecting the weights 5 with a facing or similar strip of very thin material and in practice this strip of material is out on the bias, and the cutting of the strip in this manner also aids in preventing it from being buckled, twisted, or gathered in the operation of stitching the weights thereto.

After the weights have been stitched to the bottom edge portion of the strip 6 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 said strip is folded as shown in l igi 4, and the bottom edge portion thereof is stitched to the body portion as shown at 0 and this forms a keeper eX- tending entirely around the bottom portion of the skirt or garment or as nearly so as necessary, and in which the weights Z) are inclosed. It will be understood that the weights 6 may be of any desired dimensions and any number thereof may be employed in connection with the bot-tom of a skirt or other garment, and it will be also understood that in practice the strip a with the weights secured thereto or therein is secured to the bottom of the garment in the usual manner.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letmy invention I have signed my name in ters Patent is presence of the subscribing Witnesses this 10 The herein described garment Weight,said 9th day of March, 1912.

Weight consisting of flat oblong blocks of soft metal and the ends thereof being bev- SAMUEL PAULL' eled on one side, and said side being also lVitnesses: provided with a longitudinal groove. C. E. MULREANY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as G. WEINREICH.

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